Spirit

• Spirit is the part of conscious life that mediates/communicates between the body/matter and the soul. It is the consciousness that doesn’t consist of matter…however it is essential to the being as breath is to the body.
• Spirit is my original source and my connection to all that is. It is what fashioned this body and dreamed the playground I am in to expand and grow.
• Spirit is the all-pervading non-physical essence ever animating, expanding and unfolding ‘what is’ into what is greater still. In our scientific mythology ‘what is’ began with a singular infinitesimal point that mysteriously evoked the big bang and the incomprehensible universe. Within our own individual nature spirit expresses itself in thoughts, ambitions and desires to go beyond. In its purest form, these expressions come quietly at special times in life, which we describe as moments of inspiration. Yet the directional sense is not quite right. Inspiration isn’t so much the flowing of spirit in to us as it is a release or outpouring of spirit emanating from deep within. The same power, which causes the rose to unfold and blossom, is also at play in us. Yet the rose does not work or plan at blooming but simply allows its nature to be fulfilled. Perhaps our confusion as humans comes from believing we need to work at our spiritual evolvement. We become spiritual seekers on a mission to discover our spiritual path or find that special practice or wisdom needed for our ultimate maturation. Yet in doing so we may get in our own way and risk becoming the rose bud that fails to open. It happens unfortunately to many of us. There is indeed a stirring inside us eager to reach the outside. We might do well to nourish and honor that singular stirring above all else. It is what spirit intends to be.
• Spirit is an elusive word to me since I have no definition for Spirit and I am unsure what spirit is/is not or even if the human mind can define spirit. So, for me, it is the indefinable source of all that is.
• This is a rather interesting word. One that many have pondered its meanings for thousands of years and one that I continue to explore its depths. Spirit is an energy that flows and animates all of life.  Spirit its the unseen force that we can “feel and sense” but perhaps can never really know.  Does spirit guide us or do we guide spirit?  Is it a dance of energy between the individual the collective and the “everything?”  Is there even an individual a collective separate from the “everything?” I think Spirit is all of that and more.
• Spirit is the life force that flows in all. It is the chi or the breath that we have the honor to experience as a guest in this house of gaia. It is the ONE as all share it, and is unseen to the eye, however, recognized by the senses. It is the pulsing of life that we all share.
• Spirit: is the enthusiasm and excitement you can see in someone’s eyes. It is also that which animates life, whether in a rock, a plant, or a human body. It is the breath of God.
• An individual tried recently to convince me that our “spirit” as he saw it was the combination of our emotions and thoughts separate from our bodies and our bodies of much less importance. I disagreed. Interesting is that emotions are directly linked to our physicality specifically through chemical secretions in the brain that are involuntary. Thoughts are steered for most people by emotion: hence most people’s views are ruled by their emotional context: hence people are in fact the result of the commands of their flesh. It is not to say that one cannot override the commands of the body with the reason of the mind – but that volition can by it’s very definition not be emotional in nature since emotion is run by the body – hence one could argue that the “spirit” is our ability to reason, used voluntarily to override our emotions to act in favor of what available information logically determines is the correct decision in a given situation.

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